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Using web applications in a Ubuntu Desktop

"Mozilla Prism is a tool that allows you to run your
favourite web based service as if it were a standard desktop
application. This article shows you the steps required to get you
started.

"Email, word processing, photo editing... These all used to be
the domain of the desktop, but more and more these services are
moving to the web. Working online does have its benefits. You can
access you information from any interent enabled device (especially
now that handheld devices are supporting technologies like HTML 5
and Flash), the information is easily shared, and you should have a
reasonable degree of protection from data loss (assuming the host
of the web service has a good backup and disaster recovery system
in place).

"But a lot of these web based applications don't really fit
within a browser though. Time and time again I see messages like
"don't use your browsers back button". It can also be hard for some
to switch from the desktop, shortcut, window list paradigm to a
browser start page, bookmarks and tabs interface."